2014-2019
Asian Thought Movement Report: 2014 Renjian Thought Forum was co-organized by Inter-Asia School, China Academy of Art, and Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, and curated by Gao Shiming and He Zhaotian. It also marked the inaugural exhibition of Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, The Civil Power.
Six scholars, Chen Kuan-Hsing, Xu Baoqiang, Liu Zhiwei, Daizo Sakurai, Wen Tieju and He Zhaotian, were invited as keynote speakers, and each presented detailed talks on the following six topics: ‘Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies’, ‘The Edge of Island, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements’, ‘Renjian Thought Review: Intellectual Activity and Social Practice’, ‘Critical Thought and Social Movements, Wandering Inside and Outside the University System’, ‘Left-Wing Cultural Studies in Hong Kong from the 1990s to the Present’, ‘In Search of China in History: Thirty Years of ‘South China Studies’’, ‘Tent Theater: Migrations and Movements’, ‘The Chinese Path of Rural Construction’; ‘The Double Variation of Enlightenment and Revolution: From How to Understand the Modern Chinese Revolution’. The forum also invited Baik Youngseo, Wang Xiaoming, Chen Guanzhong, Sun Ge, Mousen, Lv Zhenghui, Xu Jinyu, Zheng Zhenman, Cheng Meibao, Yang Nianqun, Shen Lin, Marukawa Tetsushi, Suzuki Masahisa, Jiwoon Baik, and other scholars with deep knowledge of Chinese and Asian culture. More than thirty scholars and thinkers with profound academic qualities and vigorous thinking attended, moderating and responding to the forum.
During the forum, all involved shared their personal experiences and wisdom accumulated through years of plowing the fields of reality and knowledge, at the same time confessing to the difficulties and perplexities they encountered, constantly broadening and challenging their thinking, and probing to the core of the issues. Their speeches were full of sharp insights and rich with human feeling.
During the forum, the organizers also published a new collection and series of Renjian Thought Review. Gao Shiming and He Zhaotian were the editors-in-chief, Chen Kuan-Hsing, Lv Zhenghui, Sun Ge, Xu Jiang, and Johnson Chang served as advisors, and ICAST students Tang Xiaolin, Zhang Jing, and Yuan Anqi served as the editors.
As a series of international intellectual publications deeply rooted in society and closely embedded into Asia and the Third World, ‘Human Thought’ attempts to reconnect and explore the critical intellectual resources of the Asia region, to open up a broader vision of humanity, generate more historically relevant interpretations , and to look for new opportunities to intervene in reality, and create history.
Renjian Thought Review is published twice a year, and is already in its eleventh series, including editions such as 1949 as A Human Event, Three Parallel Artworlds, New Democracy as A Human Event, Report on Asian Thought Movements, The New MaLand, and the Nation, Bandung/Third World 60 Years, The New and the Old, Reason and Time, Circumstances and Situation, How to be a People, How to be a Nation, Socialist Transformation as a Human Event, Thought in the Third World, The Fifties as Method.